Steel and Composite Structures

Volume 28, Number 1, 2018, pages 13-24

DOI: 10.12989/scs.2018.28.1.013

Buckling analysis of new quasi-3D FG nanobeams based on nonlocal strain gradient elasticity theory and variable length scale parameter

Mohammed Sid Ahmed Houari , Aicha Bessaim , Fabrice Bernard , Abdelouahed Tounsi , S.R. Mahmoud

Abstract

A size-dependent novel hyperbolic shear deformation theory of simply supported functionally graded beams is presented in the frame work of the non-local strain gradient theory, in which the stress accounts for only the nonlocal strain gradients stress field. The thickness stretching effect (&#949z ≠ 0) is also considered here. Elastic coefficients and length scale parameter are assumed to vary in the thickness direction of functionally graded beams according to power-law form. The governing equations are derived using the Hamilton principle. The closed-form solutions for exact critical buckling loads of nonlocal strain gradient functionally graded beams are obtained using Navier's method. The derived results are compared with those of strain gradient theory.

Key Words

new hyperbolic shear theory; nonlocal strain gradient elasticity; stretching effect; buckling analysis

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